Life Under the Shade

You are a believer in a smart cocktail after a hard workweek so you take your stylish self in your very high heels to the tiny corner café near your home to chill for an hour and take your mind from a hectic schedule to a relaxing weekend. Sitting on the deck of the café, kicking off your shoes, enjoying your martini, and staying cool under the café’s Eclipse retractable awning is your Friday afternoon ritual. You only work half days on Fridays so stopping by the shaded outdoor café gives you the feeling of a mini vacation. Little did […]

Yahoo! It’s officially spring which means that summer is right around the corner. Even though you’re still battling a little mixed precipitation, all you can think about lately is getting to the beach house. What stands out most in your mind are the many years you have had your Eclipse retractable awnings on both sides of the house to prevent the heat from radiating through the walls and windows so indoor temperatures stay cooler and the protection your family gets from the damaging ultraviolet rays of the sun. You’ve watched your children grow up under the Eclipse awnings at the […]

It is the beginning of baseball season and no one is more excited than you and your buddies. You have your den all set up with the lounge chairs, drink holders, wet bar, and make sure plenty of snacks are always available. Just as it’s time for the pregame show, the sun reached a point in the sky where the entire side of the room slowly disappeared with sun glare and it will be like that for about an hour and half. Hmm…could this be why other family members rarely spent afternoons in the den? That was then. This is […]

There have been many months of winter snowstorms this year, but you are not going to let that stop you from “thinking spring” and getting ready for summer! Number one on your list every year is to prepare the yard and back deck for summer living. Your outdoor retreat would not be a retreat without your Eclipse retractable awning for solar protection. There’s never been a summer day that could get any better than relaxing with your family or entertaining friends in your extended outdoor living space. There was a Saturday last summer when you and a few of your […]

Awnings have become more and more popular through the years. Many homes have them and so do businesses. When you added awnings to your corner café business, more customers came out for lunch and stayed, enjoying the comfort of the shading. When you shade outdoors the indoors stays cooler too because solar shading solutions prevent the heat of the sun from radiating through walls and windows. When your long-time friends got their Eclipse awning a couple years ago, you had some great visits with them. While discussing how the café was doing, you mentioned that the windows near the sidewalk […]

You just woke up and looked out the window to see that it’s snowing again. “Are you kidding me!?” you ask out loud. This time last year, you were cleaning out the garage and clearing the flower beds to get ready for spring. Next, of course you opened your Eclipse retractable awning to get it ready to roll in anticipation of the sunshine to come. Spring did come and so did summer and you had wonderful lazy days outdoors with walks around the neighborhood holding hands, sometimes wandering over to the playground to watch children on the swings and slides. […]